Current position(s)

Associate Prof./Germanic Studies

Current project(s)

Narrative Performance in Contemporary German Culture

Former position(s)

Wiss. Mitarbeiterin, Universitaet Paderborn, 1999-2002

Monographs (and dissertation)

2. Szenarien kopfloser Herrschaft – Performanzen gespenstischer Macht. Königsfiguren in der deutschsprachigen Literatur und Kultur des 20. Jahrhunderts. [Scenarios of Beheaded Authority – Performances of Ghostly Power: Kings and Queens in 20th-Century German Literature and Culture.] Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 2004.
1. Ortlosigkeit des Fremden. “Zigeunerinnen” und “Zigeuner” in der deutschsprachigen Literatur um 1800. [Placeless Strangers. “Gypsies” in German-language Literature around 1800.] Cologne: Böhlau, 1998.

Articles

Journal Articles (selection)
"Gods, German Scholars, and the Gift of Greece. Friedrich Kittler’s Philhellenic Fantasies.” Theory, Culture, and Society (forthcoming 2006).
"Imperialist Fantasy and Displaced Memory. Twentieth-Century German Egyptologies.” New German Critique 95 (fall 2005; forthcoming).
*“Feminine Masculinities. Literary and Scientific Representations of ‘Female Inversion’ at the Turn of the 20th Century.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 14.1-2 (2005; special issue on theories and methodologies, forthcoming).
“Die Rhetorik kultureller Differenz in D. C. v. Lohensteins Afrikanischen Trauerspielen.” [“The Rhetoric of Cultural Difference in D.C.v. Lohenstein’s African Tragic Dramas.”] Zeitschrift für Germanistik N.F. XIV.2 (2004): 265-282. *“Pop-Identitäten 2001: Thomas Meinecke, Hellblau, und Christian Kracht, 1979.” [“Pop-Identities 2001: Thomas Meinecke, Hellblau, and Christian Kracht, 1979.”] Gegenwartsliteratur – Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch/Contemporary Literature. A German Studies

Edited volumes

3. With Gisela Ecker and Susanne Scholz. Dinge. Medien der Aneignung – Grenzen der Verfügung. [Objects. Media of Appropration – Limits of Control.] Königstein im Taunus: Helmer, 2002.
2. With Ulrike Bergermann and Tanja Nusser. Techniken der Reproduktion. Medien – Leben – Diskurse. [Technologies of Reproduction. Media – Life – Discourses.] Königstein im Taunus: Helmer, 2002.
1. With Tobias Döring. Figuren der/des Dritten. Erkundungen kultureller Zwischenräume. [Figures of the Third. Investigations of Cultural In-between Spaces.] Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998.

20./21. Jahrhundert (Literatur, Film, Archaeologie, Architektur etc.)
Gender und Queer Studies, Postcolonial Studies